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Backtrack 5 r3 vmware archive & 32bit system

Hello,

I had quite a surprise opening fine the BT5R3-GNOME-32-VM.zip other a 64bit 12.04 Ubuntu and hitting a wall other my 32bit 12.04 Ubuntu laptop.
It displays "End of central directory signature not found" with unzip under linux, that it's only a part of a multipart archive other windows vista and 7 32bit, winrar and windows's extractor.
I checked the archive against it's md5 bca6d3862c661b615a374d7ef61252c5. It was not that.

More surprising when I came back to my 64bit desktop, loading the BTR3 32bit VM I installed file-roller which manages to see the files inside the zip but cannot unzip it o_O

Full error message :

Code:

Archive: BT5R3-GNOME-32-VM.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: BT5R3-GNOME-32-VM.zip may be a plain executable, not an archive
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of BT5R3-GNOME-32-VM.zip or
BT5R3-GNOME-32-VM.zip.zip, and cannot find BT5R3-GNOME-32-VM.zip.ZIP, period.

Re: Backtrack 5 r3 vmware archive & 32bit system

Originally Posted by daedalus1776

...what? I'm really not sure what you're saying. If the MD5 sum is not the same as what's on the downloads page, then download it again.

Ok I've been unclear, I thought it could be badly downloaded/transfered but it was not that. I'm not that dummy.
Try it yourself if you don't believe me, a zip file can work on a system and not another !

Re: Backtrack 5 r3 vmware archive & 32bit system

I don't mean to sound harsh, but I'm certainly not about to spend a few hours trying something just to see what you mean. In saying that though, I checked the downloads page on this site, and the VMWare image is a .7z not a .zip... Could that be your problem?

Re: Backtrack 5 r3 vmware archive & 32bit system

Originally Posted by daedalus1776

I don't mean to sound harsh, but I'm certainly not about to spend a few hours trying something just to see what you mean. In saying that though, I checked the downloads page on this site, and the VMWare image is a .7z not a .zip... Could that be your problem?

Good point !
The direct link sends a .7z file while the torrent gives a zip !
The files are the same only the extension differs...

I'm disapointed about File-roller not checking the mime type and surprised a 7z with lzma can be opened as a zip file o_O (under certain conditions)